I bought a Raspberry PI 4 and a CSI-port camera for a standalone multi-application video teleconferencing system.
The goal is a second standalone "appliance" that my MD wife can use for patient televisits while using her main (linux) computer screen to look at patient records, medical images, etc. For now, she also uses her main computer (running CentOS and Chromium) for Zoom, doxy.me, and other teleconferencing apps that her non-computer-geek patients want her to connect with. Some use an iPhone teleconferencing app that seems incompatible with non-Apple platforms (big surprise ... not!). A mess of incompatibilities and black-box-module security vulnerabilities. I do NOT want closed source application modules running on the same computer as her patient records. I had hoped the standalone RasPi could fix all this. Nope. I found RasPi user forums bemoaning the lack of Arm/Raspbian modules necessary to run the Zoom app native on the PasPi4. Only the Chrome/Chromium web interface works, with lousy video and audio. No complete and TESTED solutions mentioned on the forums, with the last despairing messages in late August. And Zoom is only the first of many teleconferencing apps that I hope to run eventually. I suppose I can add yet another ALIX X86 single board computer, and configure the RasPi and camera as a webcam connected to the ALIX's third gigabit ethernet port, but that sounds like "too many moving parts". So - should I hope for Raspberry Pi Foundation and the community to negotiate with and produce Pi modules for Zoom and other teleconferencing apps? Should I ditch the Pi and use an off-the-shelf Logictech webcam with another Alix? What will be the least trouble in the long term? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
